Wada and 13 other members of the Super Free Club were arrested
over three rapes, two of which happened within weeks of each other
last year. Police say 12 more women have since come forward with
new allegations, and there are thought to be many more victims.

The members of the club, originally a fraternity social society,
were blue bloods attending universities whose previous graduates
include Emperor Akihito and the Prime Minister, Junichiro
Koizumi.

Led by Wada, they organised parties three or four nights a week
at hotels in the city that were often attended by 2000 people.

"At the entrance, pretty co-eds were given VIP cards," a witness
told the weekly magazine Shukan Post last year.

"These girls enjoyed special treatment. However, they were the
club's targets. The VIP co-eds were invited to a VIP room and given
a special cocktail, called the Spiritus, which club members made.
The cocktail was filled with 96-proof vodka. Super Free Club
members then took these drunken co-eds to other rooms and took
turns raping them."

Another witness said that the gang targeted unworldly girls and
lured many back to Wada's flat, which was also the head office of
the Super Free Club.

"As far as I know, they raped someone twice a week. I guess that
they raped more than 20 co-eds in April," the Shukan Post
report said.

The court was told that Wada threatened club members who did not
want to participate and took highly incriminating photos of others
involved in the rapes.